The Thai surrogate mother of a baby with Down’s syndrome abandoned by his
Australian biological parents plans to sue and has challenged the father to
appear on television with her.

Pattaramon Chanbua, 21, an impoverished street-food seller, claims the west
Australian biological father of her twins came to a Bangkok hospital and
took the healthy girl but abandoned the infant’s twin brother, Gammy, who as
well as Down’s syndrome has a hole in his heart.

On Monday, the biological father, a man in his fifties, denied abandoning the
severely ill male twin and claimed that a Thai surrogacy clinic doctor